Ovulation pain: can you feel when you're ovulating? That niggling pain is back again, low down in the left of your lower abdomen. It’d be nice to just sit down and put your legs up, but you’ve got to keep working. That time of month again – no, you’re not due for your period [...]
How targeted nutrition can affect your pain experience Epigenetics: it’s a bit of a buzzword floating around at the moment, but what does it actually mean, and what does it have to do with chronic pain? Why do you need to know about chronic pain and epigenetics? Epigenetics is the study of how environmental factors [...]
Part 1: Magnesium Chronic pain is complex; no one can deny that. Anyone who is experiencing chronic pain can think of their pain as a giant puzzle. There are many pieces that make up the picture, and an often-overlooked piece is the nutrition piece. Nutrients, which trigger certain (normal) physiological functions, are one part of [...]
Sex: whether talking about it, thinking about it, or doing it, it often seems as though our society is obsessed. But if you paid attention to how sex is depicted in our society, you could be forgiven for thinking it is only the young and beautiful doing it! The reality is that sex is [...]
Problems using tampons? This is more common than you might think! Many women choose not to use them. They may find tampons difficult to use at the outset, when they first start using them, or problems using tampons may develop even when they used to find them fine to use before. To work out [...]
That smarting, chafing stinging after sex…what does it mean? It really has a way of putting a dampener on things when you get stinging and discomfort after sex. After it’s all over, the vaginal entrance feels tender and irritated. It’s often worse when you go to the toilet to do a pee after sex. [...]
Tailbone Pain (Coccydynia) and What Can Be Done About It Can’t sit down without pain? When all you can feel when you sit is your tailbone, you've got coccydynia. Coccydynia (also called coccygodynia) is pain felt in the area of the tailbone – that is, right where you sit! It is almost always due [...]
Ladies’ Libido…a slippery creature indeed! I would like to share some wonderful resources for women who are seeking that elusive creature: libido, or sex drive. You may find these resources useful for your libido if you: Have noticed that your libido has dropped Have never really felt much with sex Are motivated to improve [...]
Bladder pain: what could be behind it? Bladder pain can be downright distressing. Like all ‘’organ’’ pain, it is compounded by the anxiety associated with ‘’something being wrong’’ with an important body system. There is a range of experience of bladder pain. Some aspects include: -Pain when passing urine -Pain that feels like it’s [...]
What Else Could Be Behind Your Bladder Pain? This is Part Two - so make sure read part 1 of Bladder Pain to get the full story on possible causes of bladder pain! Cancer causing bladder pain. Let’s get this one out of the way! While bladder cancer or a bladder tumour, is an [...]
